Notes

Cool URIs don’t change.

The list was at http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

I’ll update my collection: https://principles.adactio.com/#google

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Working out of my living room means anyone on a video call with me can see that the Christmas tree is still up.

If someone mentions it, I ask if they’re with the Christmas Police (because if they are, they have to tell me—that’s the law).

Cynicism is a theory of everything.

—Rutger Bregman

You need skin. Take good care of it. Don’t harm a hair of it. What would you do without it? Keep it clean. Soapy water every day will wash the dirt and smells away ’cause you need skin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POKOmbge5ZQ

I call dibs on Conservative Web Apps.

Reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, translated by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.

Very happy that @LeaVerou, @hober and @rhiaro have been elected to the @w3cTAG …and even happier that the shill from an ad-tech company failed.*

• Not Google—a different ad-tech company.

It’s like Boris Johnson’s government came up with the current mix of activities for Donald Trump:

Rule 1: You’re not allowed to post on Facebook or Instagram anymore.

Rule 2: You can still launch nuclear missiles.

I wonder how many of the white supremacists that stormed the Capitol building got their swag from Breitbart’s merchandising store, powered by @Shopify.

@Tobi, do you have any stats on that?

(Related: is attempting a coup “free speech”?)

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Myself and @wordridden have been watching all the Marvel movies (in timeline order) over the holidays and we’re almost done.

Tonight we will start watching Avengers: Infinity war at 9:48:54pm so that Thanos’s snap happens at midnight.

Books I read in 2020: https://adactio.com/journal/17724

Fiction by @DeuceOfGears, @GreatDismal, @QwertyKate, @UrsulaKLeGuin, @BrianAldiss, et al.

Non-fiction by @DellSystem, @AnnaWiener, @DavidDeutschOxf, @AdamRutherford, et al.

Yay! Glad you liked it, Erik!

You and Bob Dylan both!

My wife just said the same thing—“he was probably a conscript himself!”

Playing Arthur McBride (song) on bouzouki …for it being on Christmas morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz1FS6hlM